Currently on display at the Zabar Art Library (1608 Hunter North) is a selection of photobooks from our Special Collections. You can read more about each of these publications and artists below, or by visiting the Zabar Art Library. Our current hours are here: https://library.hunter.cuny.edu/hours/zabar-art-library
Fall 2024
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Disfarmer byCall Number: TR680 .D573 1996ISBN: 9780944092385Publication Date: 1996-10-01In the small mountain town of Heber Springs, the Arkansas artist known as Disfarmer captured the lives and emotions of the people of rural America between 1939-1945.
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The Innocents byCall Number: KF9756 .S56 2003ISBN: 9781884167188Publication Date: 2008-09-01These are the faces and voices of the wrongfully convicted: fifty men and women who were imprisoned for years before proving their innocence with the help of The Innocence Project, which strives to transform criminal justice into a more equitable and reliable system. The personal testimonies of these victims of mistaken identity lay bare the paradox of innocence and imprisonment, the inability to recover the years stolen from them, and the state's unconscionable refusal to compensate them or ease their traumatic transition to civilian life. In full-colour throughout.
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Like a One-Eyed Cat: photographs by Lee Friedlander, 1956-1987Call Number: TR647 .F75 1989ISBN: 9780932216328Publication Date: 1989-03-01A brief introduction to the photographer follows a collection of his photographs, mainly from the 1960s to the 1980s.
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Tseng Kwong Chi: Self Portraits 1979-1989 byCall Number: TR647 .T76 2008ISBN: 9780979416453Publication Date: 2009-02-01This handsome volume features 100 works from Tseng Kwong Chi's pioneering series of large-scale black-and-white self-portraits, produced from 1979 to 1989, many of which have never been published. The son of exiled Chinese nationalists, Kwong Chi was part of a 1980s New York circle that included Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf and Cindy Sherman. His ironic portraits of himself posed in a Mao suit--with a visitor badge reading SLUTFORART in front of American tourist destinations--found their way to Communist China through Western magazines smuggled into the country in the 1980s, greatly influencing China's avant-garde. Ann Magnuson, a ubiquitous downtown performer in the 80s, mused, "Just who is this visitor from that forbidden land, who is both tasting the fruits of American freedom and slyly satirizing our home of the brave?"
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